Edith Royal

Decades after his last game in 1976, Darrell K. Royal remains “The Coach,” the winningest football coach in University of Texas history. The driving force behind 11 Southwest Conference and three national championships, winner of Coach of the Year and Coach of the Decade awards, and honored namesake of the Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium, Royal is still revered as “a coach who would rather lose a game than engage in unsportsmanlike tactics; who would neither make excuses for losing nor brag about winning; and who by his own example contributes to the building of stalwart character in men,” in the words of the City of Austin’s “Darrell Royal Day” proclamation. DKR: The Royal Scrapbook offers an intimate, insider’s view of the private life of the man behind the legend through an extraordinary collection of never-before-published photographs, letters, newspaper clippings, football ephemera, recollections, and “Royalisms” lovingly preserved by Edith Royal, DKR’s wife of more than 65 years. Edith Royal is the mother of three, grandmother of four, great grandmother of two, and still finds time to represent her husband, Darrell Royal, and The University of Texas as the First Lady of Texas Football. She is a visible and vocal advocate for drug and alcohol recovery and has helped lead scores of people to sobriety.

At the Festival: DKR: The Royal Scrapbook DKR: The Royal Scrapbook Sunday, October 28 AMOA-Arthouse at the Jones Center (700 Congress)